Byetta
1 injection twice a day.
1st – 30 min before I eat breakfast
2nd – 30 min before I eat dinner
Started it this morning.
Kind of nauseated, but nothing like on the metformin. Hate injections, but do love that my blood sugar has not been out of whack so far. Well it’s been a tad low-ish (76 after breakfast) but that’s actually good control, not really hypoglycemically (new word?) low. Below 70 and it’d be notsogood. But I just ate some fruit after and was fine. I like fruit!!! 
The nausea tends to be after injection, then eases up when I eat, then comes back after I eat. My after dinner blood sugar was 92 (not quite 2 hrs post-prandial) so wow. I am a happy camper with that. Just getting used to my sugars not hitting 200 so I feel like I have low blood sugar. I’ll even out.
Thank goodness I was smart and started it on the weekend… I don’t know how I would’ve done work in the AM feeling like I did today. But I’m sick with a cold too, so I am kind of a mess, hehe.
And maybe one day I’ll be a “hot mess” because weight loss is a major side effect of this medicine. It also can suppress your appetite. But it’s not a bad thing. The way the medicine works is by having your stomach empty out a lot more slowly. When you have diabetes your stomach empties faster than a non-diabetic’s. So the sugars raise AND we get hungrier and hungrier. UGH… so I’ll be glad to not have food on my mind as much.
I didn’t believe it would make me less hungry, but for dinner it sure did. I got 2 tacos and a chalupa at Taco Bell (yah, did not want to cook, it was so hot). So I took my shot, then drove to Taco Bell and back. Oooh also ordered cinnamon twists to share with the hubby. And guess what? I ate 1 taco, and 1/2 (maybe 2/3) of my chalupa, and one cinnamon twist (because I felt bad I ordered them and didn’t eat ‘em, haha). So there sits 1 uneaten taco, bag of cinnamon twists (which hubby didn’t eat) and part of a chalupa. And I’m fine. Feel like blood sugar is low-ish but I’ll just nibble something and be ok.
Hope it stays good, and the nausea subsides soon. (If I’m “normal” it should go away within a week or two).
Have you tried to do low carb to control your blood sugar?
yah to say the least
this is after 2 diabetic pregnancies – my new baby is only 3 months old. And my big problem isn’t so much after meals (though it isn’t “great”, yes, w/carb control it’s way better) … the problem is my fasting. My liver likes to pump out the sugar overnight like crazy.